A modified collective agriculture in rural growth-with-equity : reconsidering the private, unimodal solution

After a critique of recent literature on scale economies and a discussion of stratification tendencies in private agriculture, the paper identifies the limitations of an agricultural structure of small, private farms as a basis for rural growth with distributive equity, and introduces a model of democratic rural collectives incorporating features of Chinese and Tanzanian precendents. Finally, the relevant difficulties for the case of a cooperative creating reform are discussed. (DSE)